The CCUCC Justice & Witness team maintains relationships with various organizations working to make the world a better place. Guided by our faith and belief in working for a more just world, we support these organizations through significant financial gifts, volunteer hours, and supply drives throughout the year.
Building Food Security
Community Food is a program of the Community Action Center that helps folks who are struggling to pay for food and housing—neighbors living on the edge of “getting by.” CCUCC holds food drives throughout the year and has an onsite food pantry. Learn more at www.cacwhitman.org/communityfood
Meals on Wheels
Pullman Community Council on Aging, in partnership with the Council on Aging & Human Services, provides hot, nutritious, lunchtime meals to homebound seniors in Pullman. CCUCC delivers meals throughout the year. Learn more at www.pullmanccoa.org/meals-on-wheels
Community Relief Fund for Crisis Housing
Donations to this this fund support the provision of crisis housing through the Community Action Center. Learn more at www.cacwhitman.org/crisis-housing
Family Promise of the Palouse
Family Promise of the Palouse has mission to empower families with children experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable independence for a promising future. CCUCC hosts families on site multiple times a year. Learn more at www.familypromisepalouse.org
Inland Oasis of the Palouse
Inland Oasis is a volunteer organization providing support to the LGBTQ+ Community and our Allies on the Palouse. CCUCC is a Gold Sponsor of the Pride in the Park event held each August in East City Park in Moscow. Learn more at www.inlandoasis.org
Housed in the Gladish Community & Cultural Center, proceeds from this thrift shop go to support the local community. CCUCC maintains a donation bin located at the corner of Campus and Ruby St Learn more at www.gladishcommunity.org/oscars-closet
Faith Action Network
CCUCC provides financial donations to the Faith Action Network, a statewide, multifaith partnership striving for just, compassionate, and sustainable communities through courageous advocacy and public action. Learn more at www.fanwa.org
Palouse CORE
CORE (Council on Racial Equity) is a group of citizens from many walks of life who meet, discuss, and actively work to improve, uphold, and maintain equity in the community’s institutional, governmental, educational, and social spheres. CCUCC provides meeting space for Palouse CORE and supports their activities. Learn more at www.palousecore.org
Vote Forward
Vote Forward is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that empowers grassroots volunteers to send handwritten letters encouraging fellow Americans to vote. CCUCC volunteers have written thousands of letters to voters. Learn more at www.votefwd.org
Pullman Child Welfare
Pullman Child Welfare exists to help families attain self-esteem and move toward self-sufficiency by offering them survival, safety, dignity, opportunity, joy and hope. CCUCC supports Pullman Child Welfare’s Annual Christmas Giving Tree with requested gifts by children. Learn more at www.pullmanchildwelfare.org
ASLA Foundation
The ASLA Foundation improves the lives of underserved individuals, families, and communities of Nicaragua through education. CCUCC supports the Nicaraguan Scholarship Program every year which helps provide financial means to students to attend school and college. Learn more at www.aslafoundation.org
FāVS NEWS
FāVS News is a non-profit online publication covering religion and ethics in the Inland Northwest. Building community and bridging divisions through independent, transparent journalism, commentary, and engagement that emphasizes inclusion, acceptance, understanding, and respect, FāVS gives voice to a broad spectrum of belief traditions with a particular interest in those whose voices have been muted or ignored. Learn more at www.favs.news